Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Joy, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

• All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beautiful, Motivation, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.99, Hachette UK

• Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moon, Men, Thinking

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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